Brin Winter Sessions (Part 1)

Brin Rock - what a place.

Ben at Brin

This is the Magic Wood of the North and has some really cool funky boulders. Ben and I were dropped off by our mothers and trekked across the field at dawn on the extra frosty morning. We warmed up with a dose of Hit Me then went project hunting! First we found a nice vertical wall, 20m to the left of the Block which, faces up hill. We did 2 new lines Business Time V4, the left arete, and Part Time Model, V5, climbs the middle, both from sitters. Then we went exploring deep into the wood, running around and checking anything that caught our eye. There's lots to do...

When we found an amazing overhanging roof we decided to start here and work our way back. This boulder is obvious if you go 10m further along than the den and look up hill, it looks like a Crocodile's snout...

The Crocodile Boulder

Beneath the roof we climbed a crimpy V8 testpiece from two opposing crimps, throw up a heel and crimp your way to the snout. I named it Crocabot... But the main project takes the right hand side and looks very hard indeed.

Ambiance

Then it was up hill and right slightly for a super cool blunt arete problem...

Old Love, V6

Then more hiking through the forest...


...To the big overhanging arete project...

Project...

It's big and bold, do-able but maybe only just...

Then more walking in the woods and back to the happy boulder where I retro-flashed Spirited V5. Then, we gazed in awe at the big black roof project... The King Project...